[R-390] Progress!!! My yellow striper

[Tim Shoppa]

Good news... Got the mainframe banged back into shape, a couple of spot
welds on the aluminum strips, the broken connections from the wiring
harness to the front panel mostly mended, and the RF deck cleaned up
and installed.  Power supply had 200-ohm resistor added (the military
had upgraded it to solid state rectifiers but there's no sign they
added a 200-ohm resistor). Put in audio deck, verified B+ lines
with correct voltages, added RF deck and crystal oscillator deck,
verified 100kHz, 17MHz, and crystal oscillator deck operation on all
frequencies. VFO operation verified and endpoints within a few kHz
(good enough for now).

Sometime later, gotta put in the IF deck and add a 600 ohm transformer
for the speaker. Might happen tomorrow!

Still some mending necessary on the front panel etc. wiring too, have
to reconnect the lights on the bezel too.

So, calendar timing: Got the yellow striper on June 17th. Made a lot
of progress in the first month cleaning up chassis in general (including
repaint) and the PS and AF modules. Then things slowed down, I finally
cleaned up the IF deck just a few weeks ago. Then spent the past couple
of days putting everything back together. With a little luck, it'll be
happy and receiving after a complete realignment in the next week or
two (realistically I have very little free time unless I get up at 3AM).

Obviously I'm not the quickest worker, but I do want to thank everyone
here for the encouragement and words of wisdom in the past half year!

Also, corporate thanks to the wonderful world of chemistry, especially
JB Weld and Caig De-Oxit! Brake cleaner and bike grease and a lot of
solder wick too :-).

Tim.